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Adding to @jjwilliams924.bsky.social, land use change/pesticides, & climate change drop bumblebee spp occurrence rates by 45% in natural & 55% in human-dominated areas. Led by @tnewbold31.bsky.social. W/ @uottawa.ca PhD alum Peter Soroye. #pollinators 🌎 🧪 🌐 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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✨Bumble bee probability of occurrence responds to interactions between local and landscape land use, climatic niche properties and climate change🐝New paper out, led by @tnewbold31.bsky.social, & with @jetkerr.bsky.social & Peter Soroye (the result of some fantastic trips across the Atlantic 🇨🇦) 🌎 🧪 🌐

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⏰ “Harmonizing nature’s timescales in ecosystem models” 📑 One of the main takeaways -> transdisciplinary solutions are key 👏🏼 🧪 🌍 🌐 doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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Beautiful day in York. Thank you @janehillyork.bsky.social for inviting me to give a talk at @anthropocenebio.bsky.social today. Thanks to all those I spoke with for the interesting conversations, hopefully they’ll lead to some exciting research!

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New online! Causes and consequences of insect decline in tropical forests

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We are offering a two-year postdoc position to work on the spatiotemporal dynamics of native and invasive pest species in vineyard landscapes. Co-supervision between @inrae-save.bsky.social & @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social with @cnmeynard.bsky.social. More info: jobs.inrae.fr/en/ot-25562

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The #biosphere is changing: Check our global mapping of ecological novelty in wild #ecosystems (due to #climatechange, #defaunation & floristic disruption) - just out in @natureecoevo.bsky.social ♨️🐘🌿🌐 Big thx to @mattkerr.bsky.social for the huge effort! #novelecosystems #invasivespecies #megafauna

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New 🗒️led by Alex Pigot - Macroecological rules predict how biomass scales with species richness in nature -Standing biomass increases with richness when large-bodied spp are numerically rare but independent when spp size & abundance are uncoupled. @ucl.ac.uk - Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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🌾💦 Water and Food for Healthy and Resilient Societies ☀️👥 That’s the theme of the 2025 European Talent Academy! Thrilled to be taking part and looking forward to developing projects at the London meet this week 💭 @imperiallifesci.bsky.social

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Help out a cool citizen science project 🌸 FruitWatch is in its 4th year - keep it going! www.fruitwatch.org 🍎🍒🍐 🧪 🌐

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@nature.com has just published online our new paper!🎉🐸🌡️Lead by @patricepottier.bsky.social and supervised by myself and @itchyshin.bsky.social: in this massive research effort we overcome several common convictions related to the topics we studied. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here are take-homes.

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📢New paper!! 📢using #BioTIME #timeseries we showed that faster rates of #turnover in community composition were associated with faster rates of #temperature #change across biomes, for both cooling & warming + microclimate availability & human impacts modulate these responses go.nature.com/3WD7cWa

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How susceptible are insect pollinators to population fragmentation due to anthropogenic land-use changes? This review identifies research gaps and needs on population genetic connectivity for bees and hoverflies @respublications.bsky.social resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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eDNA offers opportunities for improved biodiversity monitoring within forest carbon markets 🌎🧪🌐 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Zoonotic Host Richness in the Global Wildland–Urban Interface 📄 https://buff.ly/4gsHdYl #urbanization #zoonoticdisease #infectiousdisease

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Declining pollinator diversity harms plant reproduction—but not all pollinators or plants are affected equally. A global meta-analysis shows wild, nocturnal, and invertebrate pollinators matter most. Biodiversity loss threatens ecosystem function. #Pollination #BiodiversityCrisis

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eDNA offers opportunities for improved biodiversity monitoring within forest carbon markets. 🌐 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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📣 We are #hiring a #postdoc to conduct research on the values of pollinators @uni-freiburg.de in the EU Horizon Project #VALOR. Research Field: Evaluating #pollination and pollinator contributions across the EU 3 years, full-time Starting 01.06.25 Further information: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

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In Uganda, a women-led reforestation initiative fights flooding, erosion news.mongabay.com/2025/01/in-u...

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rangr: An R package for mechanistic, spatially explicit simulation of species range dynamics #rstats 🌐🌍 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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🔥The more we learn, the worse it gets…🫣 scary start to the @granthamicl.bsky.social Climate Research Showcase’s final lecture - @joerirogelj.bsky.social highlights that the global risks posed by climate change were predicted to be higher in 2022 compared to 2016 (due to new research) 🧪

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Deadline coming up for cool biodiversity-AI PhD with the wonderful @robinfreeman.bsky.social at @zslscience.bsky.social and @wwf.org.uk and me at the glorious UCL East campus in People & Nature Lab

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☀️ We already know 2024 was the warmest year on record 🤒 Today at @granthamicl.bsky.social’s Climate Research Showcase, @frediotto.bsky.social is highlighting that many of the extreme temperatures we’re now experiencing would never have happened without human-induced climate change 🔥

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In 2024, global heat stress reached new highs, affecting 44% of the planet on its peak day. Discover the details for various regions in our Global Climate Highlights 2024 report: bit.ly/40kQpcz

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Now out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social - Land Use Change Consistently Reduces α- But Not β- and γ-Diversity of Bees - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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New paper! 🦠🐭🦟 Perspectives on the route towards a 'people and nature' paradigm for biodiversity-disease research and action, with fantastic co-authors @profkatej.bsky.social, @dwredding.bsky.social and Sagan Friant. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Pandemics, global change, and biodiversity loss? In a new paper published in the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, we argue that these are three facets of an ongoing polycrisis, with common roots, and hopefully common solution. A short thread. 🧪😷 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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NEW 🦠‼️ Several countries and reports have called for the creation of an Intergovernmental Panel on Pandemics. Over the last two years, we brought global health law experts together with IPCC and IPBES members, and mapped out a blueprint for its scope and governance. 🔓 papers.ssrn.com/abstract=508...

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Today sees the publication of a special edition of Phil Trans Roy Soc B ‘Bending the curve towards nature recovery: building on Georgina Mace's legacy for a biodiverse future’ dedicated to the life’s work of Prof Dame Georgina Mace: @rspb.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

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Land-use change reduces bee diversity at local scales, but the impacts of agriculture and urbanisation differ at regional scales. Agriculture has more negative effects overall. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪 🌏 🌐

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### NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ### Global Joint Synthesis Call "𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲" Funding of: ➡️ Working groups ➡️ Postdocs @several synthesis centres/initiatives🔥❤️😍 PLEASE SPREAD WIDELY! THX! www.idiv.de/research/sdi...

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Happy New Year all! Lots of things to look forward to in 2025, with the below Climate Research Showcase being one of them. Check it out and feel free to get in touch if you fancy a chat at the event! 🧪

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'Messy nature' supports pollinators and #biodiversity recovery - read more in a blog post by UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme coordinator Dr Claire Carvell 🔗 ukpoms.org.uk/node/74

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Fully funded PhD position available! Join us at @scienceanu.bsky.social to work on an exciting project that was recently funded by the ARC. Applications close 27th January. See our website for more details: sites.google.com/site/drfarin... Contact myself or @jamesklarevas.bsky.social for details.

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A study of 2.9 million rivers worldwide reveals large shifts in global river flow patterns over the past 30 years. The results emphasize the critical yet changing role of upstream rivers in flood dynamics and the far-reaching consequences for both natural and human systems.

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Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.

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Talk about #BigData! 🤯 These are the top 10 datasets by number of records added in 2024! @inaturalist.bsky.social #CitizenScience #OpenData#12DaysOfData #DataViz

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Feeling compelled to share something positive today. In the recent expedition by Conservation International & local indigenous groups to Alto Mayo, Northern Peru, 27 new animal species were discovered! A swimming mouse, a blob-head fish, and others! Merry Christmas everyone! ❄️☃️🎅

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Anthropogenic #activities & #disturbances significantly alter & homogenize #plant #functional #diversity 🌳🌲🍀☘🌿🌱🌾🌼 compared to natural habitats in Europe shorturl.at/EhLA5

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Remote sensing approaches to monitor tropical forest restoration: Current methods and future possibilities 🛰️ 🌏 🧪 Discusses technologies, such as: 👉very-high-resolution RGB imagery 👉hyperspectral imaging 👉lidar 👉radar 👉thermal-infrared technologies 🔗

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The @britishecolsoc.bsky.social is holding an event in February on Conservation and Novel Ecosystems in a Changing Climate I’ll be talking at it! Link for free tickets below www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conservati...

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I was interviewed for @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social about the IPBES #nexusassessment - here are my thoughts! @ic-cep.bsky.social @imperialsci.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/news/259514/...

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Agroecology offers a powerful pathway towards achieving biodiversity, climate, and food security goals simultaneously. foodtank.com/news/2024/11...

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#climatechange, #nature loss and #foodinsecurity are all inextricably linked and dealing with them as separate issues won’t work” —concludes @ipbes.bsky.social major nexus report

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Nexus report by #IPBES is out and making the news “governments are underestimating or ignoring the links between five key areas - biodiversity, water, food, health and climate change.” This "siloed" approach has unintended consequences… bbc.com/news/article...

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Important piece by Gittleman - “It’s impossible to separate human health from health of the natural world. Ecology is the unifying science that integrates knowledge..[the] One Health approach is unlimited, exciting, & necessary for the health of life on our planet” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪🌎🌐🌾

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🌳 Forests are cool –> literally! 🌡️ Old-growth beech #forests in Germany act as "cool islands," vital for temperature-sensitive species. Hence, 1/ protect mature forests 2/ link patches with corridors 3/ foster unmanaged areas for future old-growth ecosystems. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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